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Why Agents Die Between Demo and Production w/ Lyzr

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Hosted by Kiriti & Aish and Siva Surendira

Mon, Aug 31, 2026

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Building Agentic AI Applications with a Problem-First Approach
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam
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What you'll learn

Build for the long tail

Why agents that sail through a scripted demo fall over on real inputs, and what to test before you commit.

Design for governance

Permissions, audit trails, and guardrails that survive a security review.

Plan for what comes after go-live

Monitoring, cost control, and human escalation paths that keep agents running.

Why this topic matters

Most agents look finished at the demo and then stall. The gap is rarely the model: it is reliability on real inputs, permissions, audit trails, cost, and the operational load of running agents that people depend on. Siva has taken agents into production at Fortune 500 companies across finance, retail, and government, and will walk through where they break and what closes the gap.

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Kiriti & Aish

AI practitioners with combined 20+ years of experience

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti is the founder and CEO of LevelUp Labs, a human-first AI startup that helps develop and deploy production-ready generative AI solutions for mid to large enterprise clients. With over 9 years of experience in machine learning, she has published more than 35 research papers at top-tier AI conferences, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and CVPR.

Kiriti Badam is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI Codex, with over a decade of experience designing high-impact enterprise AI systems. He specializes in AI-centric infrastructure, with deep expertise in large-scale compute, data engineering, and storage systems.

Siva Surendira

Founder & CEO, Lyzr AI

Siva Surendira is the founder and CEO of Lyzr, an enterprise agent infrastructure platform that Fortune 500 organizations in finance, retail, and government use to build, deploy, and govern autonomous agents in production. A two-time founder, he previously built PowerUpCloud, an AWS consulting business acquired by L&T Group in 2019.

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